i want to bring in bill schneider, chicago sun times washington bureau chief and columnist, lynn sweet. both big fans of "price is right," i understand. the president wants to keep the taxes and exit poll says 47% ironic number there, 47% says that there should be a tax hike for those earning over $250,000 a year but republicans don't want any tax hike. is this going to be the sticking point in negotiations? >> well, this is the first round. think of it this way. obama is now saying that the republicans are the ones that want a tax hike, right, the party that you might associate with being anti-tax. because if you do nothing, if you do nothing, we all, that's to congress, we all will pay more tacks next year. if you do what people will seem reasonable, if you give 98% of us -- because that's how many of us don't earn -- joint earners don't earn 250,000, why don't you let most of us keep the tax break that we get now. now, an ideal way of crafting a deficit reduction package, you do all the parts together. if you listen carefully to oh what obama said yesterday, it seems it's trying to,